Commitment
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Commitment may refer to:
  • Promise
    Promise
    A promise is a commitment by someone to do or not do something.In the law of contract, an exchange of promises is usually held to be legally enforceable, according to the Latin maxim pacta sunt servanda.- Types :...

    , or personal commitment
  • Contract
    Contract
    A contract is an agreement entered into by two parties or more with the intention of creating a legal obligation, which may have elements in writing. Contracts can be made orally. The remedy for breach of contract can be "damages" or compensation of money. In equity, the remedy can be specific...

    , a legally binding exchange of promises
  • Brand
    Brand
    The American Marketing Association defines a brand as a "Name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's good or service as distinct from those of other sellers."...

     commitment
  • Involuntary commitment
    Involuntary commitment
    Involuntary commitment or civil commitment is a legal process through which an individual with symptoms of severe mental illness is court-ordered into treatment in a hospital or in the community ....

    , the use of legal means or forms to commit a person to a mental hospital, insane asylum or psychiatric ward
  • Ontological commitment
    Ontological commitment
    In the philosophy of language and metaphysics, an ontological commitment is said to be necessary in order to make a proposition in which the existence of one thing is presupposed or implied by asserting the existence of another. We are “committed” to the existence of the second thing, even though...

    , belief in an ontology in philosophy
  • Organizational commitment
    Organizational commitment
    Organizational commitment in the fields of Organizational Behavior and Industrial/Organizational Psychology is, in a general sense, the employee's psychological attachment to the organization...

  • Commitment scheme
    Commitment scheme
    In cryptography, a commitment scheme allows one to commit to a value while keeping it hidden, with the ability to reveal the committed value later. Commitments are used to bind a party to a value so that they cannot adapt to other messages in order to gain some kind of inappropriate advantage...

    , in cryptography
  • Commit (data management)
    Commit (data management)
    In the context of computer science and data management, commit refers to the idea of making a set of tentative changes permanent. A popular usage is at the end of a transaction. A commit is an act of committing.-Data management:...

    , to make changes permanent in data management
  • Kingsbury Commitment
    Kingsbury Commitment
    The Kingsbury Commitment of 1913 established AT&T as a government-sanctioned monopoly, as an out-of-court settlement of the government's antitrust challenge...

    , the beginning of AT&T's monopoly in the telephone industry
  • Climate commitment, a model of climate change
  • Yue Ding: Commitment, an album by Michael Wong
  • Commitment (Seal album)
    Commitment (Seal album)
    Commitment, sometimes known as Seal 6: Commitment, is the seventh studio album by British Nigerian singer Seal. It was released worldwide on 20 September 2010 with the exception of the United States where it was released on 28 September 2010. The album is produced by David Foster, who also produced...

  • Commitment (Lucky Boys Confusion album)
  • "Commitment" (song)
    Commitment (song)
    "Commitment" is a song by LeAnn Rimes, release as the lead single from her album Sittin' on Top of the World. The song placed at #4 on the US country charts, #38 in the UK. It was later featured on Rimes' Greatest Hits and its international version, The Best of LeAnn Rimes.-Charts:...

    , a 1998 song by LeAnn Rimes

See also

  • Committed (disambiguation)
  • Commit charge
    Commit charge
    In computing, commit charge is a term used in Microsoft Windows operating systems to describe the total amount of pageable virtual address space for which no backing store is assigned other than the pagefile. On systems with a pagefile, it may be thought of as the maximum potential pagefile usage...

  • The Commitments (disambiguation)
    The Commitments (disambiguation)
    The Commitments can refer to:*The Commitments, a novel by Roddy Doyle .*The Commitments, a film of 1991 by Alan Parker based on the novel by Doyle.- See also:*Commitment *The Stars From The Commitments...

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